Fewer protesters before the constitutional decision on Macron’s pension reform

This Thursday, France experienced a new day of strikes and demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, ahead of the Constitutional Council’s decision on the text. The twelfth day of social mobilization against the reform raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 is being followed by 11,500 policemen and gendarmes. attracted fewer protesters. In the entire country, according to union data, there were about a million protesters in 250 protests, half of the calls since April 6.

There were the fewest in Paris 36 policemen were arrested and 10 were injured. A group of railway workers broke through the doors of the headquarters of the luxury company Louis Vuitton and occupied the lobby for several minutes.

“Yes, it is necessary [Macron] Remove this law, otherwise you won’t be able to run the country,” he warned Sophie Binet, the new general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT). Binet believes that Macron’s problem is this “He spends a lot of time in his Falcon, but little on the groundwith wage earners, and is therefore completely separated from the needs of the population.

Macron was willing to meet with unions after the decision of the Constitutional Council. Binet believes that if there is talk of withdrawing the pension reform, the unions will come “with great pleasure, if not, we have work to do”.

And Binet and laurent berger, the general secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT), have already warned that protests will continue regardless of the verdict. A group of protesters symbolically blocked the entrance to Ustavna sa garbage cubes.